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523-One Thousand
For the first time in history, an asteroid hunting team, the Catalina Sky Survey, has discovered more than 1,000 Earth approaching asteroids in a sin…
7 years, 2 months ago
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10E-19-An Asteroid with a Comet Orbit [2013JD4]
The Centaur type asteroid, 2013 JD4, is an interesting object. It takes 41.5 years to orbit the Sun on a path that takes it as close to Earth as we a…
7 years, 2 months ago
522-Comets Africano
During Comet C/2018 V4 Africano's last visit to the inner solar system humans were erecting the outer ring at Stonehenge. At the rate human's are cha…
7 years, 3 months ago
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9E-18-The FIrst Pre-Impact Discovery [2008TC3]
2008 TC3 is the first of the two of small asteroids which astronomers have been able to find and track into our atmosphere. Samples of these impactin…
7 years, 3 months ago
521-Lunar Space Rock
Recently, my Catalina Sky Survey teammate Hannes Growler discovered an Earth approaching asteroid which has a speed consistent with it being ejected …
7 years, 3 months ago
8E-17-2013 US10 From Asteroid to Comet to Deep Space
An object is discovered that first appeared to be a huge near Earth asteroid. Subsequent observations show it to be a comet making a single trip thro…
7 years, 3 months ago
520-Comet Lemmon
An interstellar traveler visits our neighborhood on its tour of the Milky Way.
7 years, 3 months ago
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7E-16-The Discovery of Comet P:2014 A2 [Hill]
Have you ever wondered how a comet is discovered and named?
7 years, 3 months ago
519-Greg's Comet
The discovery of a Jupiter family comet whose fate is to become a garden variety main belt asteroid.
7 years, 3 months ago
6E- 15-Suppose An Asteroid Is On A Collision Course With Earth
Over geologic times, the impacts of objects from space have produced significant changes to our planet's biosphere. Earth threatening asteroids pres…
7 years, 3 months ago